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1879réf. 39943Paris 1879. may18. Paris 1879. may18. b/w plates. Folio159 plates. Atlas to the first edition of this very rare compendium of ships and ship building both naval and commercial compiled for the 1878 exposition. Much on steam ships. Details of construction and all manner of propulsion equipment. Polak 6410 citing text but not noting the existence of this impressive atlas. Atlas consists of 2 sections 1-66 and 67-159 full page folio plates in original wrappers in larger portfolio. Wrappers and portfolio chipped water stain at the bottom of the portfolio and on the bottom edges of some pages not affecting plates which are all in good condition. PICTURED - An early aqualung. . unknown books
1919réf. 34793Washington DC: Navy Department Commission on Training Camp Activities 1919. First Edition. Oblong 12mo 10x13.5cm.; publisher's dark blue staple-bound card wrappers; 298pp.; chiefly musical scores two full-page photographic illus. linocuts by John Held throughout. A hint of toning to wrapper extremities else Very Good to Near Fine. Collection of patriotic songs with illustrations by a young John Held signed in image either "JH" or "J. Held" but otherwise unattributed to him. The noted Jazz Age cartoonist had already had work published in Vanity Fair though after the United States entered World War I he worked for Naval Intelligence in Central America as an illustrator and cartographer. Navy Department Commission on Training Camp Activities unknown books
1907réf. 31197N.p. Japan ca 1907. Pair of large trapunto banners both removed from original frames. First 82cm x 60cm ca 32" x 24"; embroidered in silk with trapunto elements on a black silk ground; photographic portrait on cabinet card inserted in embroidered pocket at center inscribed "Mellie McKeever" on verso. Silk ground fragile with a few thin tears but no significant losses; light soil; embroidered portions generally well-preserved and colors bright. Very Good. Second banner 65cm x 50cm ca 25" x 20"; photo-transfer on silk with embroidered ornaments. Slight fading to embroidered portions but generally well-preserved and sound; Very Good. Both banners with firm provenance purchased from the descendants of Mellie McKeever of Richwood West Virginia. Two exceptional and well-preserved examples of the ornamental trapunto banners that were popular souvenirs among U.S. sailors and marines during the late 19th and early 20th century. Yokohama was the principal point of production for these naval souvenirs but we have also seen examples from the Philippines and mainland China; Japanese examples such as these are generally distinguished by a higher quality of embroidery and more sophisticated composition. The banners became popular among British and American sailors beginning as early as the Boxer Rebellion and the Spanish-American War but seem to have reached their peak of popularity with the arrival in the Far East of Teddy Roosevelt's Great White Fleet in 1908. Some 14000 sailors and marines made land at various Japanese ports-of-call in that year and given the regularity with which these textiles still appear one imagines that every sailor must have brought at least one of these souvenirs home with him. The first example though of an unusually impressive size is of a type frequently seen displaying typical naval iconography right down to the hand-painted battleship portrait of a two-stack battleship of the Kearsarge class its hull painted white reflecting its peace-time mission at bottom center. The embroidered frame to hold a cabinet portrait of the sailor or perhaps a loved one is a typical feature found on more elaborate examples. The American Eagle in full battle stance is a nearly universal element of these banners. The second banner is of a style we have not previously seen and for which we can find no analogues in the extensive literature of naval souvenirs. It is clearly a family portrait probably a composite made from cartes-des-visites carried by McKeever; the portraits are printed by silkscreen using a photo-transfer process with applied trapunto decorations. The likenesses are clearly enlarged -- it is highly unlikely that a common sailor would have had room aboard a battleship to carry full-size portraits -- and it strikes us that this must have seemed an almost magical process at the time of creation especially to a young man from a tiny lumber-and-coal town in central West Virginia. Aside from their obvious virtues as objects of art and handicraft we regard these banners as compelling pieces of material culture from a period of tremendous social transformation in the United States. According to the Naval Historical Center U.S. naval rolls expanded by nearly 400% between the beginning of the Spanish-American War and the launching of the Great White Fleet. To meet this demand for the first time in its history the Navy began recruiting from the American heartland rather than solely from the Eastern Seaboard states. The generation of inland farmers and mechanics to follow was thus the first in American history to experience first-hand cultures as diverse and divergent from their own as those of Europe Asia and the Pacific Islands; they represented not only the beginning of the American imperialist enterprise but also the first stirrings of America's global consciousness. That so many of these banners have survived in good condition is evidence of the degree to which they were treasured by their owners for whom they represented an experience that must have been transformative and definitive. unknown books
réf. 37972Peabody Mass: Marine Hardware Co n.d. Peabody Mass.: Marine Hardware Co. n.d. 429 pp. b/w line ills. Probably the generic catalog of this foundry and manufacturer. Front and back blanks bear the tipped in labels of "John Binney & Son Co. Marine Hardware - Fishing Tackle Sheet Metal Work. 326 Atlantic Ave. Boston Mass." who was probably the chandler or purveyor of items ordered from this catalog. Well illustrated with line engravings and priced. Not in Romaine; probably dates from the 1920s. Light wear to boards chip at top of spine. Text clean binding sound. Marine Hardware Co hardcover books
1829réf. 9021127Edinburgh / London: Printed for Cadell & Co. / Simpkin and Marshall 1829. 1st. Hardcover. Very good. Bound in full dark blue calf with spines and board edges stamped and decorated in gilt. Gilt stamped spine labels are rubbed and chipped more than half gilt lost but impressions still legible. Boards are rubbed at the heads heels extremities and bottom edges. Volume one has a separated front inner hinge. Volume two front inner hinge has started but is holding. Marbled endpapers. Fold-out map in color bound in to volume one. Three tables on one fold-out sheet bound in to volume three. Printed for Cadell & Co. / Simpkin and Marshall hardcover books
1993réf. 9008555New York: Abrams 1993. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. 168 illustrations including 70 in color. Bound in publisher's original grey cloth with the front cover and spine stamped in white. Abrams hardcover books
1990réf. 9006824Princeton: Princeton University Press 1990. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. Bound in red cloth with the spine stamped in gilt. Princeton University Press hardcover books
1785réf. 49566Boston 1785. A pilot for what is arguably the most historic harbor in the US the site of the Mayflower's landing. However owing to commerci . Boston 1785. A pilot for what is arguably the most historic harbor in the US the site of the Mayflower's landing. However owing to commercial development things changed over the years and further guidance was required. This is a reissue of a 1768 broadside published by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Our 1785 printing is rarer than the 1768 issue. OCLC shows 6 libraries holding copies. However only the Nichols Library at Faulkner University in Alabama the University of Florida and Simon Frazer University in Vancouver appear to hold actual hard copies. Bristol 6058 and Ford "Massachusetts Broadsides" also cite a copy of the 1785 issue at the Boston Public Library. Evans 10882 and Shipton Mooney 10882 list only the 1768 iteration. All the citations simply repeat the erroneous OCLC listing which gives the height of the broadside as 14 rather than 41 cm. Our copy is framed with old fold lines and several tears or pinholes professionally repaired one of which obscures two letters. Some foxing along top and bottom edges lighter tanning in a few spots. Generally very good condition. 33.5 x 41 cm. Printed in two columns. . unknown books
1758réf. 35261London: R. Baldwin 1758. A detailed letter supporting payment reform in the British navy. The anonymous author presents and remarks upon a new bill entitled "An Act for the Encouragement of Seamen employed in the Royal Navy; and for establishing a regular Method for the punctual frequent and certain Payment of their Wages; and for enabling them more easily and readily to remit the same for Support of their Wives and Families and for preventing Frauds and Abuses attending such Payments" p.9. Printed self-wrappers stitched. Lower inner corner of half title torn away not affecting text. Early smudged ink inscription on half title. A very good copy untrimmed and unopened. KRESS 5721. unknown books
1995réf. 233668Vintage 1995-01-31. paperback. Very Good. 5x0x8. Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Vintage paperback books
1831réf. BK0165Salem Massachusetts: Salem Press Palfray Ives Foote & Brown 1831. 78 pp. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers frayed at spine; light dampstaining at margins of a portion of the leaves at rear. Good. An early catalogue of the collections of the East-India Marine Society of Salem recording the maritime journals and objects gathered by Salem captains and merchants during the city's great period of overseas trade. Founded in 1799 by captains and supercargoes who had sailed beyond the Cape of Good Hope or Cape Horn the Society required its members to contribute to a cabinet of "natural and artificial curiosities" the collection from which the present Peabody Essex Museum developed. The Society moved the collection into the newly built East India Marine Hall in 1825 and this expanded catalogue appeared only six years later. The volume includes the Society's act of incorporation bylaws lists of members and officers a catalogue of its manuscript journals of voyages and an extensive catalogue of the museum. The voyage journals occupy pages 33-42 and document Salem voyages to ports throughout Asia and the Indian Ocean; the balance of the catalogue records the ethnographic natural-history and other objects brought home by the Society's members. This was a substantially enlarged successor to the Society's 1821 catalogue which ran to 100 pages; the 1831 edition extends to 178 pages and was followed by a further supplement in 1837. A national bibliography of American library catalogues records copies of the 1831 edition at only a small group of institutional collections.1 1 Robert Singerman American Library Book Catalogues 1801-1874: A National Bibliography Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1996 94. . Salem Press, Palfray, Ives, Foote & Brown unknown books
1983réf. UWARALO00fpVintage Books 1983. Very Good. Warner Marina. Alone of All Her Sex. New York: Vintage Books 1983. 398 xixpp. Illustrated. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: . Vintage Books paperback books
1790réf. 18237London. ca.1790s. A bill furthering the bureaucratic process to make His Majesty's Navy run smoother. Sets forth new rules for depositing exact copies of muster rolls at ports of departure with a folding blank muster roll form. 22pp. plus integral blank leaf. Folding blank printed form. Folio. Gathered signatures stitched as issued. First leaf has 4 small spots some moderate edge wear final leaf a bit dusty. Docketed in print on verso of final leaf and each enactment numbered in a contemporary manuscript hand. Very good. unknown books
1999réf. UVAIART00fpWatson-Guptill 1999. Fine. Vaizey Marina. Art: The Critics' Choice. 150 Masterpieces of Western Art selected and defined by the Experts. New York: Watson-Guptill 1999. 368pp. Indexed. Illustrated. Glossary. 4to. Hardcover. Book condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Edges lightly bumped and tiny tear on front top edge. Watson-Guptill hardcover books
1972réf. RMARFOO00fpHolt Rinehart and Winston 1972. Very Good. Marine Gene. Food Pollution: The Violation of Our Inner Ecology. Van Allen Judith. New York NY: Holt Rinehart and Winston 1972. 1st edition. xi 385pp. Indexed. Bibliography. 8vo. White cloth with blue lettering. Book condition: Very good. Edges lightly rubbed and foot of spine slightly bumped. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Edges lightly rubbed and short closed tear on back cover near fold with short crease. Cover and flaps lightly toned. Holt, Rinehart and Winston hardcover books
1989réf. 217055Prato: Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci : Museo d'Arte Contemporanea 1989. Softcover. VG: Perforation stamp on the half title page. Clean body pages and solid binding. Glossy color-illustrated wraps. 159 pages; illustrated with a majority color images. Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci : Museo d'Arte Contemporanea paperback books
1971réf. 296834Washington: GPO 1971. hardcover. very good. All six volumes bound in one volume. Many illustrations. Tall very thick 4to blue cloth. Washington: Government Printing Office 1971. A very good copy. GPO unknown books
1942réf. 529Annapolis Maryland: United States Naval Institute 1942. Cloth. Good . 4to; 509pp; gilt-stamped black cloth over board; ownership to endpapers; illustrated within text; scuffed cloth small tears to cloth on front joint wear to edges light stain to bottom edge; foxing to endpapers; good plus. Seventh edition published in 1942 as a textbook for the United States Naval Academy. United States Naval Institute unknown books
1945réf. 55611N.p. ca. 1945. African American Midshipmen in World War II A collection of thirteen real photo postcards featuring young African American Navy midshipmen serving or training during World War II twelve of which have been signed by the subjects in the margin below their photographs. Seven of the men have also added their address below their names while one serviceman inscribed his to "Mr. Strong." The sailors hail from a variety of locations namely Tennessee New Jersey Oklahoma Illinois Maryland and New York two from Brooklyn. The men are all posed likely against a studio backdrop and each is dressed in a blue uniform and white hat. The United States Navy was much slower to welcome African-American servicemen and integrate than the Army. In 1942 the Navy expanded service opportunities for African Americans beyond mess service and Camp Robert Smalls was created within Naval Station Great Lakes to host the first full albeit segregated training programs. The Navy began desegregating training in 1944 with the first thirteen African Americans becoming commissioned and warrant officers that same year the "Golden Thirteen". By 1945 all training was fully integrated. A useful group of photographs signed by African-American midshipmen of the Greatest Generation braving the American Navy during a transformative time in its history. Moderate surface wear and silvering to some photos minor edge wear. Overall very good. unknown books
1734réf. 49723London. 1734-1762. Regulations for the English Navy A nice collection of British Acts of Parliament relating to the Royal Navy or related seagoing activities. The dominance of the British Royal Navy was unquestioned from the late 1600s until well into the 20th century. These mid 18th-century acts were printed at a time when the British Navy was swiftly ascending to the peak of its power through superior financing tactics training organization population support hygiene dockyard facilities logistical support and warship design and construction. By the early 19th century the British Navy saw little action mainly due to the lack of a worthy adversary. Each of these titles is rare with between one and four copies listed in institutions in ESTC. The separate imprints included here are as follows: 1 AN ACT TO SETTLE HOW FAR OWNERS OF SHIPS SHALL BE ANSWERABLE FOR THE ACTS OF THE MASTERS OR MARINERS drop title. London: John Baskett 1734. 2291-294pp. Only three copies in ESTC. ESTC N51352. 2 AN ACT FOR THE BETTER SUPPLY OF MARINERS AND SEAMEN TO SERVE IN HIS MAJESTY'S SHIPS OF WAR AND ON BOARD MERCHANT SHIPS OTHER TRADING SHIPS AND PRIVATEERS drop title. London: John Baskett 1739. 2123-126pp. Only three copies in ESTC. ESTC N51525. 3 AN ACT FOR THE FURTHER REGULATING AND BETTER GOVERNMENT OF HIS MAJESTY'S NAVIES SHIPS OF WAR AND FORCES BY SEA; AND FOR REGULATING THE PROCEEDINGS UPON COURTS MARTIAL IN THE SEA SERVICE drop title. London: Thomas Baskett 1745. 2719-723pp. Only three copies in ESTC. ESTC N52070. 4 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF AND SUPPORT OF MAIMED AND DISABLED SEAMEN AND THE WIDOWS AND CHILDREN OF SUCH AS SHALL BE KILLED SLAIN OR DROWNED IN THE MERCHANTS SERVICE drop title. London: Thomas Baskett 1747. 2835-859pp. Only two copies in ESTC. ESTC N52775. 5 AN ACT FOR AMENDING EXPLAINING AND REDUCEING INTO ONE ACT OF PARLIAMENT THE LAWS RELATING TO THE GOVERNMENT OF HIS MAJESTY'S SHIPS VESSELS AND FORCES BY SEA drop title. London: Thomas Baskett 1749. 2687-707pp. Only one copy in ESTC. ESTC N52967. 6 AN ACT FOR ENFORCING THE LAWS AGAINST PERSONS WHO SHALL STEAL OR DETAIN SHIPWRECKED GOODS; AND FOR THE RELIEF OF PERSONS SUFFERING LOSSES THEREBY drop title. London: Thomas Baskett 1753. 2303-311pp. Only four copies in ESTC. ESTC N52861. 7 AN ACT FOR THE REGULATION OF HIS MAJESTY'S MARINE FORCES WHILE ON SHORE drop title. London: Thomas Baskett 1755. 2311-331pp. Only two copies in ESTC. ESTC N56449. 8 AN ACT FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF SEAMEN AND THE MORE SPEEDY AND EFFECTUAL MANNING HIS MAJESTY'S NAVY drop title. London: Mark Baskett 1762. 2655-658pp. Only one copy in ESTC. ESTC N56728. Dbd. Minor edge wear and toning. Generally very good to near fine condition. In a blue cloth slipcase gilt. N.A.M. Rodger THE COMMAND OF THE OCEAN. A NAVAL HISTORY OF BRITAIN 1649-1815 London: Allen Lane 2004. hardcover books
1799réf. BK0195Surinam River 1799. Autograph letter signed one page on a folded sheet with integral address panel to Moses Brown of Newburyport Massachusetts. 7 ½ x 9 inches. Old folds scattered soiling and minor losses and splitting along folds. Good. A firsthand account of the embargo on American shipping at Surinam during the Quasi-War with France written by Captain Joseph H. Woodman to the Newburyport merchant and shipowner Moses Brown. Woodman had arrived at Surinam on February 27 finding "an Embargo on all American Vessels and the Market Stock'd with every kind of American Produce." Writing a month later he reports plans to depart with "a fleet of 75 Sail of American Vessels Under Convoy of the United States Ship Portsmouth and a Number of private Arm'd Ships." Despite the crowded market Woodman reports selling his outward cargo and purchasing a return shipment of sugar molasses cocoa coffee and cotton. He also discusses remittances to Brown whose extensive commercial interests in the West Indies and South America are documented in surviving correspondence at Harvard's Baker Library.1 A contemporary account reproduced in Naval Documents Related to the Quasi-War Between the United States and France confirms that American vessels were embargoed at Surinam from February 3 to March 25 1799 and independently records their departure under convoy of the USS Portsmouth commanded by Daniel McNeill.2 Woodman's letter was written the following day providing a contemporary merchant captain's account of the disruption and the American naval protection organized in response. 1 Moses Brown papers Baker Library Harvard Business School accessed October 12 2026 https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/catalog/bak00105. 2 Naval Documents related to the Quasi-War between the United States and France Vol. II part 3 United States Government Printing Office 1935 588. . unknown books
1869réf. acs1314Baltimore: Kelly Piet & Co. 1869. First American Edition. Howe S.286. Octavo 3/4 calf & marbled boards hardcover gilt lettering marbled edges marbled endpapers tissue-protected frontis. 833 pp. Good with wear to covers and spine photographs gladly provided upon request. Kelly, Piet & Co., 1869. First American Edition. Howe S.286. hardcover books
1981réf. 90082Oxford: Oxford University Press 1981. First trade paperback printing of this edition. xviii 108 pp w/notes. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Poems translated by Elaine Feinstein with her introduction. Revised and expanded from the 1981 edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press paperback books
1992réf. 88491London: Bristol Classic Press 1992. First UK edition. 214 pp w/index of writers. Fine in near fine dust jacket with some sunning to spine. Translated from the original Russian by Angela Livingstone with her introduction and notes. From the collection of Nathaniel Tarn with his bookplate inside the front cover and his occasional pencil marginalia. London: Bristol Classic Press unknown books
réf. vot830Community Communications Inc. Ronald P. Beers 2001. Quarto gray cloth hardcover silver letters 160 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: Not your ordinary Florida Gainesville is an extraordinary fusion of cutting-edge technology and Deep South traditions a city where pristine woodlands give way to enchanting bayous and cool clean springs a city where the antique homes and shops of old Florida coexist with new suburban communities. It is a place that people of all ages and walks of life are proud to call “home.” Gainesville is also home to the University of Florida some of the finest museums and theaters in the state and an exceptional number of innovative businesses and organizations. The city’s high-tech and biotech firms stand on the forefront of research and discovery. The result is an extraordinary quality of life for the people who live here a constantly renewed and energized dynamic between the economy and the people. Gainesville: Alive with Opportunity features the breathtaking color photography of Ray Carson and contributing photographer Randy Batista. It is a visual journey through the city’s seasons its festivals and events its neighborhoods and nearby communities and its landmarks and attractions. Seasoned journalist and Gainesville Sun columnist Marina Blomberg illuminates the images with concise captions many of which are filled with fascinating often surprising facts. Completing the picture of Gainesville is a section of profiles showcasing the city’s businesses hospitals universities and other institutions and organizations. These engaging profiles written by Terry Van Nortwick capture the pulse of this sophisticated city and provide a valuable research tool for anyone interested in exploring the city’s businesses. hardcover books
